JP3658505B2 - Compound food manufacturing method and apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

A method of producing a patterned compound food capable of producing, by a simple control, a patterned compound food which has a colored pattern on the outer portion thereof, contains inside thereof a food material with a taste different from those of food materials forming the outer portion, and has a beautiful, jointless appearance on the surface thereof, the method comprising a step (A) of filling in preset amounts at least two fluid food materials with different colors into a cavity of a mold to obtain a substantially fluid preformed product kept in the shape of the cavity, a step (B) of inserting a nozzle into the preformed product, a step (C) of passing the nozzle and injecting in a preset amount a fluid filling material for forming an inner portion, a step (D) of pulling out the nozzle from the preformed product and a step (B) of solidifying after step (D) at least the fluid food materials in the cavity.

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for filling different flow materials into a decorative food.
[0002]
[Prior art]
There are chocolates that contain fluid ingredients such as liquor and jam in chocolate. On the other hand, as disclosed in JP-A-9-23818, a plurality of kinds of chocolate raw materials having a striped chocolate surface are also known.
[0003]
And what is called the shell system shown in FIG.8 and FIG.9 is used as a method of incorporating a foodstuff in the said chocolate. In the method shown in FIG. 8, chocolate-like materials 22 and 22 'each having a half-like shape are heat-bonded to form a candy-like chocolate having an opening 23 (a) and liqueured from a nozzle 28 of a filling device or an injection device 27. After injecting the flowable food material O such as or brandy, the opening 23 is closed with chocolate. 9 is filled with chocolate fluid material in the mold and vibrated, and after repeating the mold, the fluid material other than the fluid material adhering to the bottom of the mold is dropped and recovered, and then the mold is returned to its original position. Cools a little, injects the fluid food material that becomes the center (inner) to the middle of the mold, cools it, fills the fluid raw material, scrapes it, cools and solidifies the whole, and takes out the composite food from the mold It is.
[0004]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
However, in the method of FIG. 8, a seam generated when two chocolates are joined to the outer surface of the chocolate product appears, and the appearance is not beautiful. This is not only detrimental to the aesthetics of the pattern when it is formed using two or more types of decorative patterns on the outer surface, but is also fatal for special events such as Christmas and Valentine products. Become a defective product.
[0005]
Moreover, the method shown in FIG. 9 has many man-hours for the preliminary process and the main process, and the manufacturing method is complicated.
[0006]
Therefore, two kinds of chocolate fluid raw materials that become the outer shell and center (medium) of the composite food are stored in the two storage units, and the chocolate in the outer shell is first discharged into the mold, and then the outer shell and There is also known a method and an apparatus for filling a chocolate in the outer shell of the center chocolate which is not jointed by extruding the chocolate as the outer shell at the same time by discharging the chocolate as the wrapped center at the same time.
[0007]
However, this method also requires two kinds of chocolates to be stored separately, and requires a large-scale apparatus using two cylinders and its control.
[0008]
The object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned conventional drawbacks, and by a simple method and apparatus, it was made of a plurality of beautiful fluid food materials having a seamless seam on the surface with a flowable food material inside. It is to provide a composite food with a pattern.
[0009]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
The present invention has been made in view of the above object, and the gist thereof is a step of filling a fluid raw material of a plurality of kinds of fluid food materials into a mold, and a step of solidifying the fluid raw material of the filled fluid food materials. In the decorated food production apparatus comprising the step of taking out the solidified fluid food material from the mold, the flow that has not been solidified yet and has been simultaneously filled into the mold by the filling step between the filling step and the solidifying step. In a method for producing a composite food, an additional step of filling and inflating a fluid food material different from the fluid raw material into a fluid raw material of the functional food material with a cylindrical nozzle is provided.
[0010]
By filling the fluid raw material of the fluid food material into the uneven pattern (relief pattern) portion of the mold bottom in advance before the filling step, a more complex and high-grade manufacturing method of a composite food can be obtained. Moreover, when it replaces with the said mold and a sales container is combined, the process of taking out a composite food from the container and mold of a mold can be omitted.
[0011]
As another gist of the present invention, a filling device for filling a fluid raw material of plural kinds of fluid food materials into a mold, a solidifying device for solidifying the fluid raw material of the filled fluid food, and a mold of the solidified fluid food material In the decorative food manufacturing apparatus comprising a take-out device to be further taken out, the filling device separately stores a fluid raw material of the plurality of types of fluid food materials, and a nozzle portion for discharging a fixed amount from the storage portion. The nozzle portion is fed with a nozzle mounting substrate for extruding fluid raw materials of the plurality of types of fluid food materials from one or more upper holes provided for each first passage, and sent to the lower portion of the substrate. A second passage for moving and diffusing the fluid raw material of each type of fluid food material in the horizontal direction and a number of pilot holes greater than the number of the upper holes are provided in the passage, and the plurality of types are forcibly provided in a lower mold. The liquid food One or more nozzle pieces for extruding the fluid raw material of the material are disposed, and the fluid raw material is separated from the fluid raw material in the fluid food material of the fluid food material simultaneously filled in the mold between the filling device and the solidifying device. There is an apparatus for producing a composite food in which a cylindrical nozzle for filling a flowing food is installed.
[0012]
Using the mold as a sales container, filling the liquid raw material of plural kinds of fluid food materials into the concave portion of the container with the filling device, injecting the flowable food material into the fluid raw material with the injection device, and solidifying them It is also conceivable to separately provide a manufacturing apparatus in which the combined food is packaged in a mold / commercial sales container without using the above-mentioned take-out apparatus by solidifying with an apparatus.
[0013]
The above-mentioned multiple types of flowable food materials can be produced by adding natural or artificial colorants to the flowable food material of the same material as when it is made of a flowable food material that differs from the food pattern that appears outside. In addition to those that cool and solidify such as chocolate, yokan, candy, ice cream, cheese, jelly, etc., those that are solidified by heating such as castella and kamaboko can be considered.
[0014]
In addition to liquors such as wine, liqueur and fruit liquor, milk, coffee, juice and other liquid foods, other chocolates, jelly, red bean paste, various ganaches, creams such as janduya, strawberries, There are viscous things such as jams such as marmalade.
[0015]
The filling device in the complex food manufacturing apparatus includes a container part (not shown) for storing a fluid raw material of fluid food material, and a nozzle part (not shown) for sending out the fluid raw material from the container part by a cylinder. Thus, the feature of the present invention is the structure of the nozzle portion.
[0016]
In detail, the nozzle part is characterized by the nozzle mounting board and the nozzle piece installed in the lower part. The former mounting board is made by die-casting or cutting, etc., and is formed between the lower part of the nozzle part body. Each of the first passages through which the fluid raw materials of the plurality of fluid food materials sent from the storage section are individually passed, and each of the first passages is provided with one or more upper holes penetrating the fluid. The raw material is sent out to the lower nozzle piece. The latter nozzle piece is provided with a second passage between the mounting substrate and receiving the plurality of fluid raw materials coming from the mounting substrate, and the fluid raw material is horizontally disposed in the second passage. It is configured to move, diffuse, and fall into a lower mold through a number of lower holes than the upper hole provided penetrating through the second passage.
[0017]
Two or more nozzle pieces are stacked from one flat plate, and the third nozzle passage is provided in the second nozzle piece to further diffuse the fluid material and discharge it into the mold from a larger number of pilot holes. By doing so, more complex decorative pattern foods can be revealed. Various patterns can be designed according to the relationship between the position of the prepared hole of the nozzle piece, the size and shape of the diameter, and the form of the opposing mold.
[0018]
The solidification device is for solidifying the fluid raw material of the fluid food material in the mold sent from the filling device by a conveyor or the like, and includes a cooling device called a cooling tunnel or a heating chamber.
[0019]
The injection device is installed between the filling device and the solidification device, and has an inner diameter of 3 m / m to 9 m in the fluid raw material of the non-solidified flowable food material in the mold, which is sent by an intermittently moving conveyor or the like. The fluid raw material is expanded according to the injection amount by injecting the fluid food material with a cylindrical nozzle of about 6 m / m, preferably about 6 m / m. By removing the nozzle after injection, the nozzle hole is blocked by the viscosity of the fluid food material itself, but a small amount of fluid raw material may be supplemented at the same location to eliminate the trace of the hole.
[0020]
[Action]
In the present invention, a multi-pattern decorative food is obtained from the surface to the inner surface by simultaneously filling a fluid raw material of plural kinds of fluid food materials into the mold, and the fluid food material is forced while the fluid raw material is not yet solidified. By injecting into the surface, it is possible to produce a pattern food that is seamless on the surface.
[0021]
In addition, it is possible to eat the flowable food material inside and a plurality of types of food materials located outside the food material at the same time, and it is possible to obtain a new taste and texture in the mouth along with the beauty of the multi-pattern.
[0022]
【Example】
In the following, a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described using a chocolate material as a fluid food material, but as described above, the present invention can also be achieved in foods such as candy, candy, ice cream, cheese and jelly.
[0023]
[Example 1]
In the composite food made by the method and apparatus of the present invention, white and brown (chocolate color) 2 in the mold 14 (FIG. 1 (d)) from the nozzle portion connected to the container portion (not shown) of the filling device. The seeds of chocolate fluid raw materials A and B are simultaneously injected, and a striped pattern is applied to form a chocolate product 16 having a decorative pattern as shown in FIG. The nozzle portion includes a nozzle mounting substrate 11 and two nozzle pieces 12 and 13 attached to the lower portion of the nozzle mounting plate with screws via an auxiliary plate (not shown).
[0024]
Specifically, the nozzle mounting portion 11 has first passages 11a and 11b for guiding the chocolate fluid raw materials A and B from the container portion in the horizontal direction, and one each of these passages. The upper holes 11a ′ and 11b ′ are provided. The nozzle piece 12 receives the chocolate fluid raw materials A and B fed from the upper holes 11a ′ and 11b ′, and is divided into concentric circular guides 12a (outside) and 12b that are guided in the horizontal direction. (Inner side) and lower holes 12a ′ (eight located at equal intervals) and 12b ′ (two at opposite positions) drilled in these passages, respectively, Horizontal radiation direction by receiving 8 pilot holes 13a drilled directly below the hole 12a 'and directly passing the chocolate fluid raw material A sent out from the hole and the chocolate fluid raw material B sent out from the lower hole 12b' And a third passage 13b that diffuses into the outer periphery and eight pilot holes 13b ′ that are drilled in the outer periphery of the third passage 13b.
[0025]
Thus, each of the first to third passages 11a, 11b, 12a, 12b, and 13b functions as a compartment for individually guiding the chocolate fluid raw materials A and B in the horizontal direction, and the upper hole 11a ′. , 11b ′ and the lower holes 12a ′, 12b ′, 13a, 13b ′ have a function of feeding downward from the passage, and the small holes 12a ′, 12b ′, 13a, 13b ′ are alternately arranged to form stripes. Depending on the arrangement, a white design pattern can be created on a brown background, depending on the arrangement, for example white and brown.
[0026]
Immediately below the nozzle piece 13, a large number of molds provided with a plurality of truncated cone holes are intermittently sent by an endless automatic conveyor. In addition, A and B shown to (d) of a figure are the division area | regions of the chocolate fluid raw materials A and B alternately arranged on the mold 14 assumed beforehand as decorative chocolate in order to obtain a striped pattern.
[0027]
Below, the manufacturing method of the decorative pattern chocolate of this invention is demonstrated below using the said apparatus.
[0028]
First, in a filling device, A and B are sent to a nozzle part by a predetermined amount from a container part in which two chocolate fluid raw materials A and B are installed by a cylinder to the first passages 11 a and 11 b of the nozzle mounting substrate 11. At the same time, it is fed out to the lower nozzle piece 12 from the upper holes 11a 'and 11b' each addressed to one. Subsequently, the chocolate fluid raw material A sent from the upper hole 11a 'onto the nozzle piece 12 expands in the arc in the counterclockwise and clockwise directions in the passage by the pressure pushed out in the second outer passage 12a. The eight nozzle holes 13a corresponding to the same positions of the lower nozzle pieces 13 that are in close contact with each other without any gaps are pushed out from the eight nozzle holes 12a 'disposed in the mold 14 into the mold 14.
[0029]
On the other hand, the chocolate fluid raw material B sent from the upper hole 11b 'onto the nozzle piece 12 is sent to the left and right around the second passage 12b on the inner side, and from the two lower holes 12b' to the lower nozzle piece 13. It extends from a certain substantially radial third passage 13b, and is further sent out to the mold 14 through eight small holes 13b 'provided adjacent to the lower hole 13a.
[0030]
Thus, the chocolate fluid raw material that falls from 16a in white and brown, totaling 16 from 13a and 13b ', falls into the concave portion 14' of the truncated cone shape (X direction), but is in a paste form. Therefore, it gradually expands after dropping, and the white and brown chocolate fluid raw materials A and B are in contact with each other at the bottom of the mold, but spread to match the frustoconical mold whose diameter increases toward the top, There is also a condition for each of the fluid raw materials being supplied one after another (each fluid raw material A and B has the same viscosity <mass>, both of which are based on the theory of squeezing). The width increases while damming along the regions A and B in FIG. 1 (d), in which the width is set in advance, and a stripe pattern is formed in which the distance between them gradually becomes equal (FIG. 3). At this time, the mold is filled with a margin to allow the center to be injected.
[0031]
Next, the fluid raw materials A and B in which the strip-like pattern is formed in the mold are not yet solidified, and a cylindrical nozzle as the injection device 15 is inserted, and then a flowable food material such as liqueur other than the filling device. C is filled inside, and the fluid raw materials A and B are expanded.
[0032]
In this way, it is cooled and solidified by a cooling tunnel (not shown) of the solidifying device.
[0033]
The composite food solidified in the mold 14 is recovered by dropping the product with an endless conveyor by gently hitting the opening of the concave portion 14 'of the mold downward.
[0034]
In addition, by using a sales container (not shown) instead of the mold 14, the fluid raw materials of chocolate A and B are put in the recesses of the sales containers that are successively sent on the conveyor, The flowable food material C can be poured and solidified.
[0035]
As shown in FIG. 3, the decorative chocolate thus produced is solidified with the chocolate fluid raw materials A to C injected into the mold 14 using the nozzles (FIGS. 1A to 1C). Each chocolate 16 having a pattern harmonized to a desired degree both visually and taste is obtained.
[0036]
[Example 2]
FIG. 4 shows an apparatus and method for manufacturing a decorative chocolate 16 ′ as a composite food as shown in FIG.
[0037]
And this embodiment is different from the first embodiment in that a hopper 15 is installed at an intermediate position between the filling device and the mold, and 16 delivery holes 15a ′ (lower holes 13a) around the hopper 15 are fitted. , 13b ′ (which is slightly smaller in diameter) than the perforated plate 15 ′ (FIG. 4) , and the structure of the nozzle mounting substrate 11, nozzle pieces 12, 13 and mold 14 of the remaining nozzle portion Are common.
[0038]
Therefore, the following description of the manufacturing method using the above apparatus is only different from the first embodiment.
[0039]
Most of the chocolate fluid raw materials A and B that have been extruded in white and brown alternately from the lower holes 13a and 13b 'pass through the delivery holes 15a' of the perforated plate 15 ', but the remaining amount is In the mixing chamber on the perforated plate without passing, white and brown are mixed to form a mixed pattern, which is the same from the periphery of the white or brown single color chocolate fluid raw material passing directly through the delivery hole 15a ′ from the lower hole. It passes through the delivery hole 15a ′. In this way, the white or brown monochromatic chocolate fluid raw material extruded from the delivery hole 15a ′ has a tanned pattern S of both colors appearing around them, and these are extruded into the mold 14 to be cooled and solidified. A decorative chocolate as shown in FIG. 5 is obtained. The pattern S varies depending on the arrangement and size of the delivery hole 15a ′ and the number of holes.
[0040]
Also in the case of the second embodiment, the flowable food material C is injected and filled into the fluid raw materials A and B using the cylindrical nozzle of the injection device as in the first embodiment.
[0041]
As mentioned above, although the Example of this invention was described, this invention is not limited to these Examples, By preparing 3 or more types of chocolate fluid raw materials, a container part, and a nozzle piece, various forms (3 or more colors) ( A decorative chocolate (depending on the inner peripheral surface of the mold and the composition of each color) is obtained. More specifically, in the case of Examples 1 and 2, more complicated decorative chocolate can be obtained by increasing the number of passages of the nozzle mounting substrate and the passages of the nozzle pieces and considering the arrangement of the pilot holes and the like.
[0042]
Moreover, although the alternating stripe pattern was demonstrated in each Example, what repeated the some pattern in the plane direction can also be manufactured by using the pattern of these patterns as a unit body.
[0043]
[Example 3]
A decorative chocolate product made according to another embodiment of the present invention is shown in FIGS.
[0044]
In order to make such a product, a star-shaped concave portion is engraved or formed at the bottom of the concave portion 14 'of the mold 14 as a pre-process of the first and second embodiments. A relief pattern 17 is made by filling a small amount of white chocolate material from a filling device different from those in Examples 1 and 2, and then each filling → flowing food material C using the device of Example 1 or 2 above. It is made by obtaining each process of injection, cooling, die cutting.
[0045]
In addition, although the said Examples 1-3 demonstrated the manufacturing method and apparatus using the mold 14, it replaces with the mold of each Example, and shape | molds compound food using sales containers, such as a synthetic paper and a plastic, and this food 3 and 5 to 7 are obtained on the container.
[0046]
【The invention's effect】
The composite food of the present invention has a simple device that is seamless on the outer surface of the food, and also divides a large number of fluid raw materials of the fluid food material in the extrusion direction, and the cross-sections crossing in the extrusion direction have substantially the same ratio. Therefore, it is possible to eat a mixed taste of a plurality of kinds of foods from the beginning to the end as compared with two kinds of foods in which another food is applied only to the outer surface of the conventional base food. Furthermore, in this invention, the decoration food which added the new taste and food texture which were not before is obtained by providing another flow-like foodstuff in multiple types of fluid foodstuff material inside.
[0047]
In addition, the relationship between the multiple types of the decorative foods of the present invention is not a master-slave relationship, and even a complicated pattern can provide a decoration like a push picture with a nozzle hole at the lower hole, and has a completely different luxury compared to conventional products. A pattern is obtained and has added value. In addition to the above pattern, when a relief pattern is added to the upper part of the composite food, a composite food with even more decorativeness can be obtained.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 (a) to FIG. 1 (c) show a part of a nozzle mounting substrate in a filling device, which is a characteristic part of the composite food manufacturing apparatus of the present invention, and two sheets placed underneath. It is a disassembled perspective view of a nozzle piece. (D) is a perspective view showing one of the molds which are intermittently sent with a slight gap from the filling device, and the dotted lines in (A) and (B) are two kinds of fluidity extruded into the mold. Each area | region of the fluid raw material of food material is shown.
FIG. 2 is a characteristic part of the present invention, and is an explanatory view in which a liquid food material is injected and filled into a fluid raw material in a mold by an injection device.
FIG. 3 is a partially broken perspective view of the composite food produced according to FIGS. 1 and 2. FIG.
4 (a) to 4 (c) show another embodiment different from that in FIG. 1, but the exploded perspective view of a part of the nozzle mounting substrate and the two nozzle pieces to be mounted under the same is the same. What is different is a perspective view of a hopper in which the perforated plate (f) is fitted. (D) is a partially broken perspective view of a mold. (A) and (B) show the region where the fluid raw materials of the two kinds of fluid food materials are arranged in the mold.
FIG. 5 is a partially broken perspective view of a composite food having a tanning pattern manufactured according to FIGS. 4 and 2. FIG.
FIG. 6 is a partially broken perspective view in which a relief pattern is added to FIG.
FIG. 7 is a partially broken perspective view in which a relief pattern is added to FIG. 5;
FIGS. 8A to 8C are explanatory views showing a conventional method for producing a composite food.
FIG. 9 is an explanatory view showing a conventional method for producing a composite food different from FIG.
[Explanation of symbols]
A Chocolate fluid raw material (white)
B Chocolate fluid raw material (chocolate color)
C Flowing food 11 Nozzle mounting substrate (filling device)
12,13 Nozzle piece (filling device)
14 Mold 14 'Mold recess 15 Injection device 16 Decorated chocolate product (composite food)
16 'Chocolate product with a decorative pattern (composite food)
17 Relief pattern

Claims (6)

A decorated food comprising a step of filling a fluid raw material of a plurality of types of fluid food materials into a mold, a step of solidifying the fluid raw material of the filled fluid food materials, and a step of removing the solidified fluid food material from the mold. In the manufacturing equipment of
Between the filling step and the solidifying step, a flowable food material that is different from the fluid raw material is added to the fluid raw material of the fluid food material that has not been solidified at the same time in the mold by the filling step with a cylindrical nozzle. A method for producing a composite food that includes an internal filling and inflating process.  The step of filling a single fluid raw material, which is the same as or different from the fluid raw material, into the concave-convex pattern portion of the mold bottom before the step of filling the fluid raw material of the plurality of kinds of fluid food materials into the mold. The manufacturing method of the composite food as described in 1 ..  The method for producing a composite food according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the mold is filled, solidified, and taken out as a sales container. Decorative food comprising a filling device for filling fluid raw materials of plural kinds of fluid food materials into a mold, a solidifying device for solidifying fluid raw materials of the filled fluid food, and a take-out device for taking out the solidified fluid food materials from the mold In the manufacturing equipment of
The filling device includes a storage unit that separately stores the fluid raw materials of the plurality of types of fluid food materials, and a nozzle unit that discharges a fixed amount from the storage unit, and the nozzle unit includes the plurality of types of fluids. The liquid raw material for the food material is extruded from one or more upper holes provided for each first passage, and the fluid raw material for the various liquid food materials fed to the lower part of the substrate is horizontally disposed. A second passage that moves and diffuses, and one or more nozzles provided in the passage with a number of pilot holes larger than the number of the upper holes, and forcibly extruding fluid raw materials of the plurality of fluid food materials into a lower mold A piece and
Manufacture of a composite food product in which a cylindrical nozzle is provided between the filling device and the solidifying device in which a fluid food material other than the fluid raw material is filled in the fluid raw material of the fluid food material that is simultaneously filled in the mold. apparatus.  The complex food manufacturing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein a filling apparatus for filling a mold with a single fluid raw material is installed separately from the filling apparatus.  The manufacturing apparatus of the decorative food of Claim 4 which decided not to use the said taking-out apparatus by making the said mold into a sales container.

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